Embroiled in a fierce battle for government contracts in Africa with rival Boston Consulting Group since the spring, McKinsey has scored a significant win over its rival in Gabon.
Italy's Teleconsult, a service provider for the Congolese telecoms and pay-TV sector and, more discreetly, for the country's security services, has taken legal action against the French businessman François Gontier for breach of contract.
La société belge Anglo-Belgian Co (Ogepar) va participer à l'amélioration de la desserte électrique de Kinshasa, victime de son urbanisation chaotique.
The Chinese major CNPC is to engage in highly political talks to avoid a new tax bill from the Nigerien inland revenue.
An ambiguously worded ministerial decree granting Octogone the right to import and distribute oil products for ship bunkering purposes has resulted in mining giant GAC seeking clarification from the customs department.
Solway, a firm which steel giant ArcelorMittal accuses of encroaching on its iron ore concessions in Liberia, is headed by Estonian multimillionaire businessman Aleksandr Bronstein, who seems to enjoy the blessings of George Weah's administration.
In his efforts to secure his re-election, the Ivorian president, who is due in Yamoussoukro next month, hopes to win over the Akan people, who are traditionally more inclined to vote for his rival Henri Konan Bédié, by subsidising the price of cocoa beans, the main crop in Akan counties.
With only days to go before the expected appointment of the transitional president, CNSP officers are still divided over who should have the job. The coup-makers are divided between former generals Moussa Sinko Coulibaly and Mahamane Touré.
Already ubiquitous at Djibouti's ports, the Hong Kong company is expanding its activities in conjunction with another Chinese giant.
The $3.5 million contract secured by the defence services provider to advise the Mozambican military reflects US strategic interests in the region.
South Africa's Petra Diamonds, which has been absent from Angola's diamond sector since 2009, is in talks with the government to develop new projects in the country. The firm is one of a growing number of foreign investors being courted by President Lourenço's administration.
France's new ambassador in Algeria will have the difficult job of reviving bilateral relations, which are currently at a particularly low ebb. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune believes that France backed the "hirak" protest movement and his presidential rival Azzedine Mihoubi.
